Slow Shutter-Speeds – UPDATED Let us add some creativity to our photography with some dreamy feelings or a completely different view on something, maybe a river or a car night adding the feeling of a slow effect, like time slowing down. What can we do to take our skills a little bit further?
Documentary Photography The world we live in is full of stories, from war zones to migrating animals. Every day, newspapers are filled with articles showing the struggles of life or a beached pod of whales somewhere in the world, and all of these stories have photographs and ‘The Story’. Documentary photography, as the words say is documenting the story with…
The Photo Dictionary Very often we see words and acronyms in photography so I hope this photography dictionary can explain and help a bit in deciphering the photo language. I will add more continuously over time. Any requests for words to add to the dictionary, contact me.
Aperture, that hole in the middle of the lens that lets the light in is what we are going to be talking about. In photography, I often see questions about getting blurred backgrounds or sharper landscapes so here we will talk about Aperture and ‘Depth of Field‘. What and how? We know the size of the opening in the lens is…
I am not a fan of hobbies, sports, and activities that use huge complicated words to mask certain techniques. I feel it acts as a barrier to newcomers to photography and I do not like it. In this article, we are going to talk about how we can focus on two objects or more to the point, how we can…
Macro Photography, 9 Tips And now we move onto one of my favorite areas of photography, macro. Looking at the small bits of the big picture can often give us nice surprises and show those details we often miss and show us the really amazing complexity in nature.
7 Tips to Improve black and White Photography Now it is time to talk about black and white photography and how get we that nice looking photo. I will pass on what I was taught in this article with what I personally consider the most important first. Black and white photography has a huge amount to offer the viewer.
Portrait Photography Portrait photography can be sorted out with a few tips that can make the photo look more balanced and more professional so when the person who has been photographed sees the photo, they have a sense of a wow factor rather than ‘looks nice’. I will start with what I feel is the most important, rather than the…
The majority of people on this planet have a phone and pretty much all of these phones have a camera built in so, here we will talk about how we can use the embedded camera to take awesome photos. I will be focusing on an iPhone 7 because that is what I have but the same principles pretty much apply…
This is a brief introduction to Adobe Lightroom and its use in photography. Tutorials will follow in due course. This software I absolutely recommend to any photographer whether just starting out or established. This Gallery here shows various presets that I have used. Gallery. Lightroom, what is it? Lightroom is a catalog of all your photos The actual photo is NOT…